whoa, thats heavy

Mugato: Great. The flying car, the hoverboard, the self drying jacket, the food hydrator, the Pit Bull, blood replacement, holographic sharks and which technology did we actually achieve? The self lacing shoes.

Although we do have nostalgic 1980's bars and we have the technology and number of channels to have a dozen on tv at once if we wanted to. Fax machines are almost obsolete so we're ahead of them in that respect. Pepsi Perfect probably tastes just as shiatty as every other Pepsi product so we're not missing out there.

/doesn't really want a flying car
//people can't drive in 2 dimensions, they don't need a 3rd

Shadowknight:

...and I would STILL do such things to that woman.


'a-penis is 'ard to find.

unalivezombie: meow said the dog: This would have come very in handy for the people at the Glenn Beck teabagging festival. LAUGHTER OL. I say this as the political joke to say that they probably are not smart enough to do the tying of their own shoes. I do not mean to offend others with this comment because this is a very neat story about the shoestringings and it shows laziness on the part of the people who play the basketball.

To be fair, basketball players wouldn't mind not having shoelaces to get in the way of playing basketball. I don't mean that they are stupid, but that the strings on the shoes may get loose or undone and could cause someone to trip, but is something you don't want to happen while playing sports.

Its called Velcro.

Mugato: Great. The flying car, the hoverboard, the self drying jacket, the food hydrator, the Pit Bull, blood replacement, holographic sharks and which technology did we actually achieve? The self lacing shoes.

Although we do have nostalgic 1980's bars and we have the technology and number of channels to have a dozen on tv at once if we wanted to. Fax machines are almost obsolete so we're ahead of them in that respect. Pepsi Perfect probably tastes just as shiatty as every other Pepsi product so we're not missing out there.

/doesn't really want a flying car
//people can't drive in 2 dimensions, they don't need a 3rd

Still no time travel machine.

Subby, why don't you make like a tree...and get out of here?

/I'm your density

Still no cure for Parkinson's disease.

Its been done!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Power-Laces-the-Auto-lacing-shoe/ (new window)

Five years?! Aaaawwww... but I want my hoverboard now!

I will be very disappointed if 2015 does not feature lot of cool BTTF references and events.

Things I'd like to see in the lifetime:

1.- Powered Armor
2.- Plasma Pistols
3.- Cold Fusion
4.- Colonies on the moon
5.- Human Prosthetic that surpass peak-human strenght/speed/perception etc
6.- Robots with ACTUAL AI
7.- Robotic whores with ACTUAL AI (Paris Hilton does no count)
8.- A self-frosting beer can

Let's just be glad BTTF was Spielberg and not Lucas, or the followup tag would be peaking around the corner waiting for the ensuing lawsuit.

Mugato: unalivezombie: To be fair, basketball players wouldn't mind not having shoelaces to get in the way of playing basketball. I don't mean that they are stupid, but that the strings on the shoes may get loose or undone and could cause someone to trip, but is something you don't want to happen while playing sports

Somehow I don't think that would be worse than an electric shoe that could suddenly untie or strangle your foot or become self aware and make you kick random people in the balls.

StoPPeRmobile: unalivezombie: meow said the dog: This would have come very in handy for the people at the Glenn Beck teabagging festival. LAUGHTER OL. I say this as the political joke to say that they probably are not smart enough to do the tying of their own shoes. I do not mean to offend others with this comment because this is a very neat story about the shoestringings and it shows laziness on the part of the people who play the basketball.

To be fair, basketball players wouldn't mind not having shoelaces to get in the way of playing basketball. I don't mean that they are stupid, but that the strings on the shoes may get loose or undone and could cause someone to trip, but is something you don't want to happen while playing sports.

Its called Velcro.


Why is it that people take me the most serious, when I wasn't being serious at all? It's like I just trolled a few people, and I wasn't intending or trying to. *facepalm*

CygnusDarius: Apple whore comic

Copying Apple commercials for a comic is as creative as putting "priceless" captions on funny pictures.

jagec: CygnusDarius: Apple whore comic

Copying Apple commercials for a comic is as creative as putting "priceless" captions on funny pictures.

For all I care, it could be a droid, as well.

hardinparamedic: MzPigy: Mugato: Great. The flying car, the hoverboard, the self drying jacket, the food hydrator, the Pit Bull, blood replacement, holographic sharks and which technology did we actually achieve? The self lacing shoes.

I'll just leave this here...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15646766

/copypasta, biatchezzzzz

Yeah, too bad they aren't using this stuff in the field 6 years down the road. It was actually making zero impact in long-term survival rates, and the rates of adverse outcome were actually worse. Remember - blood does a lot more than JUST carry oxygen. Until you can artifically replicate every protein, immune molecule, clotting factor, and electrolyte to the same consistancy as human blood - you're still not doing any good. Still gotta treat leaky capillaries, lack of clotting factor, DIC, and the metabolic acidosis of shock.

The research on these compounds right now is geared towards how, because the oxygen-carrying molecules are smaller than those contained in a RBC, these compounds can help reduce the infarcted area of ischemic events, such as an AMI or Ischemic Stroke, and reduce the long-term effects of them.

Artificial blood replacement, you say?





/Hot as they are.
//Agrees that a flying car would be a bad idea. I admit I'd probably crash it the first time out.
///Self-tying shoes would be good, though.

Sim Tree: daveb0rg: meow said the dog: This would have come very in handy for the people at the Glenn Beck teabagging festival. LAUGHTER OL. I say this as the political joke to say that they probably are not smart enough to do the tying of their own shoes. I do not mean to offend others with this comment because this is a very neat story about the shoestringings and it shows laziness on the part of the people who play the basketball.

I'm afraid to admit I missed the whole "LAUGHTER OL" thing. I wonder if someone will explain it to me or go all Fark on me.

Poster meow said the Dog started putting "Laughter OL" into several deliberately obtuse posts, in a vain attempt to have the phrase go viral.

I see. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Foxie299: Oldiron_79: Shadowknight: bwakie: Hey Marty, let's get back to 1955 so I can do your mom.

Hey, I would've been tempted too. Look at her!

And yes, it's from Howard the Duck, but every dirt pile has the occasional gem hidden in it.

...and I would STILL do such things to that woman.

I'd hit it like a DeLorean doing 88 MPH

While you're driving around a parking lot being chased by Iranians with AKs, I'll be hitting it like one-point-twenty-one gigawatts.

/gigity gigity-watts

Nice...

CygnusDarius: Things I'd like to see in the lifetime:

1.- Powered Armor


I doubt powered armour will ever be a viable weapon of war. Even if they did have a powered metal "ironman" like suit that made you invulnerable to small arms fire you would still be as very soft target for anti-tank weapons.

I'm pretty sure the enemy can equip there guys with RPG-7s cheaper than your army can equip you with ironman suits.

Noticeably F.A.T.: Oldiron_79: I'm pretty sure the enemy can equip there guys with RPG-7s cheaper than your army can equip you with ironman suits.

They could be used for other things. I'm sure there are a few firefighters that would love a suit that makes them impervious to flames.

/Also, they can be used for just walking around being awesome, which is an often overlooked use for new technology.


I think one of the real practical uses for powered suits will be heavy lifting. Ripley style.

unalivezombie: Noticeably F.A.T.: Oldiron_79: I'm pretty sure the enemy can equip there guys with RPG-7s cheaper than your army can equip you with ironman suits.

They could be used for other things. I'm sure there are a few firefighters that would love a suit that makes them impervious to flames.

/Also, they can be used for just walking around being awesome, which is an often overlooked use for new technology.


I think one of the real practical uses for powered suits will be heavy lifting. Ripley style.

and catching a fish ----------THIS-------------------- big

Oldiron_79: CygnusDarius: Things I'd like to see in the lifetime:

1.- Powered Armor


I doubt powered armour will ever be a viable weapon of war. Even if they did have a powered metal "ironman" like suit that made you invulnerable to small arms fire you would still be as very soft target for anti-tank weapons.

I'm pretty sure the enemy can equip there guys with RPG-7s cheaper than your army can equip you with ironman suits.

I don't care if the armor is for suiting you up for combat, or scientific approach (the most likely application), just make it happen, engineers.

Flying cars are not a bad idea if the right safety mechanisms were installed. Most importantly, controlling traffic with GPS. The general public wouldn't actually be piloting - just telling it where to go.

Sure, big brother would have your number and you'd have to give up the illusion of safety that comes with control. On the plus side, you could get distant places rapidly, it would probably be a lot safer than automobiles, it would clear up a lot of ground traffic, and you could install a liquor cabinet in your dashboard.

I heard an extended interview with Mahler once. I don't know if he'll be the one to make it feasible, but he had thought out a lot of the problems pretty well. His answer for safety involved lots of computer system and engine redundancies.

Mugato: "Great. The flying car, the hoverboard, the self drying jacket, the food hydrator, the Pit Bull, blood replacement, holographic sharks and which technology did we actually achieve? The self lacing shoes."

The Terrafugia flying car exists. (The Israeli Mule works more like the sort of flying car you probably want, though.)

The hoverboard posted earlier is sufficient, although models exist that are properly board shaped and by using lithium batteries and an electric leaf blower air pump (instead of a gas powered leaf blower) they could be made a lot more quiet and compact, although the running time would be under an hour.

Self drying jackets exist if you count an electrically heated jacket as self-drying. I've owned two over the years, gave one to my nephew. There are now liquid cooled jackets as well, which refridgerate and circulate a coolant through tubes which snake all over the surface.

Food hydrators (and dehydrators) exist and are a pretty common sight on informercials. What we lack is any real demand for the sale of dehydrated foods on the scale of pizzas. For the most part these appliances are meant to be used by those who want to preserve things like meat and fruits to last a long time and optionally rehydrate them prior to consumption.

The Pit Bull is just a hoverboard that produces its own forward thrust. The only commercially sold hoverboard already has that feature. If you haven't got that kind of money, electric skateboards fit the bill, though of course they don't hover.

Blood replacement exists as a medical technique, and I'm unsure as to why you thought it didn't.

We now have autostereoscopic 3D displays which don't require glasses. It's only a matter of time before they can be scaled up to billboard size. Those obnoxious video billboards you see everywhere will soon be in 3D, satisfying the apparent desire for "holographic shark ads".

We also have a number of other technologies that BttF2 didn't predict. Things like affordable robotic vacuums, lawn mowers and telepresence robots. Things like wrist phones, handheld cutting lasers and new generation electric vehicles. Affordable home digital projectors and 3D TV, affordable video glasses for our ipods, underwater luxury resorts, a hotel being built in space, motion controls for videogames and all manner of other goodies.

The future only seems to have not arrived for those not paying attention.

So where am I gonna carry my change if I have to put my pockets inside out?

So....the Cubs are finally gonna win the World Series?

CornFedIowan: ABQGOD: I will be very disappointed if 2015 does not feature lot of cool BTTF references and events.

I will be too, especially when the actual date arrives.

Unfortunately, the movie found itself on the wrong end of history, so to speak, because a lot of stuff changed within just a few years after filming. Most notably, Japan's economy cratered and no one in the BTTF version of 2015 has a cell phone.

(And if you check the newspaper carefully, a woman is president.)

Sarah Palin

srtpointman: So where am I gonna carry my change if I have to put my pockets inside out?

It's just a kids' fad. You (supposedly) are an adult in 2015. Roll up your sleeves, tuck in your pockets, put on your double tie, and dial into work.

unalivezombie: Mugato: unalivezombie: To be fair, basketball players wouldn't mind not having shoelaces to get in the way of playing basketball. I don't mean that they are stupid, but that the strings on the shoes may get loose or undone and could cause someone to trip, but is something you don't want to happen while playing sports

Somehow I don't think that would be worse than an electric shoe that could suddenly untie or strangle your foot or become self aware and make you kick random people in the balls.

StoPPeRmobile: unalivezombie: meow said the dog: This would have come very in handy for the people at the Glenn Beck teabagging festival. LAUGHTER OL. I say this as the political joke to say that they probably are not smart enough to do the tying of their own shoes. I do not mean to offend others with this comment because this is a very neat story about the shoestringings and it shows laziness on the part of the people who play the basketball.

To be fair, basketball players wouldn't mind not having shoelaces to get in the way of playing basketball. I don't mean that they are stupid, but that the strings on the shoes may get loose or undone and could cause someone to trip, but is something you don't want to happen while playing sports.

Its called Velcro.

Why is it that people take me the most serious, when I wasn't being serious at all? It's like I just trolled a few people, and I wasn't intending or trying to. *facepalm*

Sometimes the best trolls are unintentional.

+1

/mmmmm, time machine.

Oldiron_79: Mugato: Great. The flying car, the hoverboard, the self drying jacket, the food hydrator, the Pit Bull, blood replacement, holographic sharks and which technology did we actually achieve? The self lacing shoes.



I want a Mr. Fusion.

Out of all the stuff introduced in the film, this is probably the best, most useful. As long as it powers more than just flux capacitors.

AmazingRuss: Still no cure for Parkinson's disease.

Power laces could be helpful if a person's hands shake too much to tie shoelaces.

TuesdayClub: As a sneaker-head I welcome our new gum-soled, self-tightening foot-based overloads.

/Loves me some Nike brand
//uglier the better
///...I spend what on Dunks?

Hangs head in shame.

As a sneakerhead myself I feel your pain...it's okay man. It's okay. *shows you my empty wallet*

BTW (for the others among us) Tinker Hatfield designed the shoe originally seen in the film, and I think his name is on the patent (have to double check).

Tinker has designed the most iconic Air Jordans, from the elephant print on the III, to the patent leather on the XI; he is remarkable. Truly a killer in the design field...

Of course people who don't give a rats anus about shoes probably think us addicts are crazy.

And they're probably right.

But have you ever seen a sad crazy person?

WELL, HAVE YOU?

CornFedIowan: ABQGOD: I will be very disappointed if 2015 does not feature lot of cool BTTF references and events.

I will be too, especially when the actual date arrives.

Unfortunately, the movie found itself on the wrong end of history, so to speak, because a lot of stuff changed within just a few years after filming. Most notably, Japan's economy cratered and no one in the BTTF version of 2015 has a cell phone.

(And if you check the newspaper carefully, a woman is president.)

Depending on how the 2012 elections go, that's still a possibility.

As for them talking about Japan, just replace the references with China and you're good to go.

Freaking coincidence: Watching the referenced movie as I read the headline... Just an hour ago I thought that "those self-lacing shoes would've been cool ta have"... Cool indeed...